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Friday, November 28, 2014

Well, it is the Day after Thanksgiving, the official kick off for the Christmas Season. So in honor of that I am sharing with you our first tutorial.

A few months ago I created a passport card on my own blog over at Taylormadecards4u. I had promised that I would come back and add the tutorial. I have linked the original post above. For this card, I modified the theme to create a Passport in honor of Santa's upcoming travels.

Santa Passport Card

The base card is exactly the same. It is two pieces of craft card stock measuring

7" x 5.5" and 5 3/4" x 4.5". I scored the larger piece at 3" and again at 1 3/4" up to the first scored line. You will need to cut off this rectangular piece so that your card has all the layers showing.

I then scored the smaller card stock at 2". I adhered the 4.5" x 2" flap to the inside of the larger piece.

This created the base of the card. I covered the base card with vintage looking paper before putting the pieces together. It made covering the card a lot easier along with the rounding of the corners.

Once the base was covered with my designer paper, I adhered the 4.5" x 2" flap to the inside of the larger piece completing the structure of the card.

Before decorating it, I distressed it using Distress ink - Walnut Stain.

From there I just started decorating. I downloaded the image from http://janetkdesignfreedigitalvintagestuff.blogspot.nl/. Unfortunately, she has since closed down her blog. But any head shot of Santa will work , you just want it to look like a passport photo. I then added "The Journey" using a remnant rub on.

From there I just started decorating. I downloaded the image from http://janetkdesignfreedigitalvintagestuff.blogspot.nl/. Unfortunately, she has since closed down her blog. But any head shot of Santa will work , you just want it to look like a passport photo. I then added "The Journey" using a remnant rub on.

On the last flap, I created a pocket to hold Santa's Documents. This set is from 7 Gypsies and is called Tags Assortment.

I finished it off by adding a few more stamped images and some embellishments.

The overall project was very easy, it was finding the right decorations to make it truly look like Santa's Passport.

So now we don't have to worry about Santa's upcoming trip! His documents are all in order and he will be able to visit all of us without worry!

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Hi everyone! I wanted to remind you all about our DT Call here at The 12 Months of Christmas Link up. We are asking that you help us spread the word. All the information can be found on our original post here: DT Call.

If you create a special post to announce the DT call and display our DT challenge badge, as a Thank You, we will send you the stars and bauble paper. We would love for you to keep our badge up on your side bar through the end of the DT call which is November 22nd.

Please make sure the badge links back to our DT call so that everyone can find us with just a click.

We also want to send out a Thank You for anyone that places our DT Call badge on their sidebar, so if you have done this only, we will send you a special Happy Holiday Word Art set. Of course if you do both, (wink...wink...) you will get both the paper and the word art set!

Now, in order to get your "Thank You" gifts, please come back and let us know by leaving a link to your special post in a comment on this one or the original DT Call post.

Lisa and I truly appreciate the support we have received in launching this new site and we look forward to you joining us in our new adventure either as a DT member or participant in the monthly link ups.

Please help spread the word by grabbing our badge, adding it to your blog and linking it to ours.

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